Amy was 22, beautiful, charming – and the keeper of a little box with more than a quarter of a million dollars in it. It was from her father, but she had never seen him and didn’t know his name. So she buttonholed Archie to find him, and Archie fast-talked Nero Wolfe into taking the case on. It turned out that Amy’s antecedents stretched back toward certain men of great power and influence. One of them had a desperate secret he would pay any price to hide…